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Welsh Meeting
Caroline Jones will now sit within the meeting as an unbiased MS
The Brexit Occasion is down to 3 members within the Welsh Parliament after former UKIP Senedd chief Caroline Jones give up on Tuesday.
The South Wales West politician accused the get together of an “anti-devolution” stance that’s in opposition to her ideas.
Group chief Mark Reckless has vowed to marketing campaign to scrap the Senedd, proposing a directly-elected first minister as a substitute.
The Brexit Occasion group wished her effectively.
Ms Jones was one in all seven UKIP politicians elected to the Senedd in 2016.
The group suffered from rows from the beginning, and Caroline Jones was the second of three leaders it had.
She left the get together after she was unseated by Gareth Bennett in a ballot of members. The UKIP group later ceased to exist, and 4 ex-UKIP Senedd members joined Nigel Farage’s Brexit Occasion final 12 months.
Earlier than she joined UKIP Ms Jones had additionally been a member of the Conservative Occasion.
Caroline Jones was one in all 4 Senedd members who fashioned the Brexit group
“As a Brexiteer, there was no motive to not lend my help to the Brexit Occasion group however this was below the understanding that the Brexit Occasion shared my view that devolved authorities must be reformed in order that it really works higher for the individuals I symbolize in South Wales West,” she mentioned.
“Their present stance is one in all an anti-devolution Occasion which is in opposition to my ideas. My perception is that Westminster does not present all of the solutions,” she mentioned.
She added she needed to make “devolution work for the individuals of Wales fairly than undermine it”.
She is going to sit as an unbiased, leaving Mark Reckless as group chief and her former colleagues David Rowlands and Mandy Jones.
A Brexit Occasion spokesman mentioned: “Caroline Jones has right this moment knowledgeable Mark Reckless and the group that she will probably be leaving the Brexit Occasion group within the Senedd. We want to thank her for all of the work that she has completed whereas part of the group and we want her all one of the best sooner or later.”